Tomasz Zan

Tomasz Zan ( born December 21, 1796 in Miasota in Minsk, Belarus, † July 19, 1855 in Kochaczyn in Orsha, Belarus ) was a Polish poet.

Zan attended from 1805 to 1812 the Minsk Gymnasium. During his studies at the Faculty of Vilnius University (1815-1820) Physico- Mathematical he was one of the founders in 1817 of illegal Polish organization of Philomaths. He belonged to other associations of this kind as the Philareten and the (legal) Promienisten. The close friend of the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz in 1824 sentenced imprisonment and subsequent life in exile in a spectacular trial by the Russian authorities for conspiracy to one year. In the next thirteen years he worked as a geologist and mineralogist in the Urals. After his pardon, he was until 1841 at the Institute of Mining of St Petersburg, before he returned to his homeland.

As a poet Zan wrote a series of elegies, poems, satirical verse and humorous novels in the tradition of Laurence Sterne. Posthumously published a diary from 1824 bis 1832.

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• Literature ( Polish)
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• Born in 1796
• Died in 1855
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